issue 149

INTERVIEW. Hengameh Yaghoobifarah is a lot of things: A blogger, an activist, a queer feminist, a fa(t)shionista. She sat down with Exberliner to sound off about her intersectional dentity and queer feminism.Read more

Brought to you by a publishing wunderkind and a refugee chef, the newest culinary addition to City West combines regional ingredients with Middle Eastern flavours and German dishes with Syrian ones. What did we think? Jane Silver dishes.Read more

INTERVIEW! Globe-hopping electro duo Gebrüder Teichmann takes to HAU’s stage with a group of Pakistani and Maldivian musicians to release "Karachi Files" as part of the festival "From Inside to Way Out" on May 14.Read more

Say "RAF" in Berlin, heads turn. The lengthy title of the Schaubühne production "The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic-Depressive Teenager..." is no different. What did we think? Read here and see for yourself May 8 and 29.Read more

This month, the first court case for sexual harassment in the wake of the Cologne attacks is set to bring to light what many have known for years: in Germany, “no means no” doesn’t always apply. A look at the law and the hard facts.Read more

While the rest of the world sees Berlin as a paragon of sexual freedom, the women who live here know it’s not that simple – not for them at least, as German health insurance doesn’t cover birth control.Read more

Berlin is so full of powerful, outspoken female directors, playwrights, artists and gallerists that you might think the gender gap doesn’t apply to stage and visual art. Our editors are here to tell you otherwise.Read more